Applying Psychology to Criminal Justice

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David Carson, Rebecca Milne, Francis Pakes, Karen Shalev, Andrea Shawyer
John Wiley & Sons, 20 août 2007 - 328 pages
Few things should go together better than psychology and law - and few things are getting together less successfully. Edited by four psychologists and a lawyer, and drawing on contributions from Europe, the USA and Australia, Applying Psychology to Criminal Justice argues that psychology should be applied more widely within the criminal justice system. Contributors develop the case for successfully applying psychology to justice by providing a rich range of applicable examples for development now and in the future. Readers are encouraged to challenge the limited ambition and imagination of psychology and law by examining how insights in areas such as offender cognition and decision-making under pressure might inform future investigation and analysis.
 

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Contents
v
About the Editors
vii
Contributors
ix
Preface
xiii
Chapter 1 Psychology and Law A Science to be Applied
1
Chapter 2 Eyewitness Identification
21
Chapter 3 Behavioural Science and the Law Investigation
39
Chapter 4 Investigative Interviewing The Role of Research
65
Chapter 9 Criminal Thinking
147
Chapter 10 The Mentally Disordered Offender Disenablers for the Delivery of Justice
167
Chapter 11 Decision Making in Criminal Justice
183
Chapter 12 A Behavioural Science Perspective on Identifying and Managing Hindsight Bias and Unstructured Judgement Implications for Legal Deci...
201
Chapter 13 To Decide or not to Decide Decision Making and Decision Avoidance in Critical Incidents
211
Chapter 14 Processes Proving Guilt Disproving Innocence
233
Chapter 15 The Changing Nature of Adversarial Inquisitorial and Islamic Trials
251
Chapter 16 Misapplication of Psychology in Court
265

Chapter 5 Credibility Assessments in a Legal Context
81
Chapter 6 Fact Finding and Evidence
97
Chapter 7 A Psychology and Law of Fact finding?
115
Chapter 8 Criminal Responsibility
131
Chapter 17 Identifying Liability for Organizational Errors
283
Chapter 18 Applying Key Civil Law Concepts
299
Index
311
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All of the editors are based at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at Portsmouth University, which is the UK’s largest provider of criminal justice courses. David Carson is Reader in Law and Behavioural Sciences and is qualified as a lawyer. Becky Milne and Francis Pakes are both senior lecturers at the Institute. Karen Shalev is a lecturer, and Andrea Shawyer is a university tutor.

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